10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2020
318 – Burrowing Owl , 16 May 2019: An unbelievable find and a thrilling chase, this bird at Big Egg Marsh was as as astonishing as it was unpredicted. 319 – Sage Thrasher , 17 May 2019: Finding my own new Queens bird is always exciting and for it to be the first in the state since 1973 was a cherry on top.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
I’m thinking here of books like Wenfei Tong’s Understanding Bird Behavior (PUP, 2020) and John Kricher’s superlative Peterson Guide to Bird Behavior (HMH, 2020). The Pieplow titles will help you identify a bird sound. Langmore and Michelle L. Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication. Press; May 2021.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 . Her bird books are Birds by the Shore (previously Notes from the Shore, 1995 and re-issued 2019) and the award-winning The Genius of Birds (2016), which focused on studies of bird cognition.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. 2019), and now this book. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. Author Joshua Hammer.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Penguins are shown individually in groups, in dense colonies, within habitat (ice, rainforest, beach), swimming in the ocean, and doing things–nose to nose with an albatross, feeding a child, placing an egg on its foot, sliding down ice. Netherlands: Oliver Plantema, 2020. by Otto Plantema.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). Jennifer Ackerman is one of my favorite bird authors.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2022
In spite of our proximity, it spent a good while positioned as if it had eggs there. That number was a bit better than my first-day total from 2019, though a bit worse than 2020’s total. In spite of being a winter migrant, which only reproduces in the U.S. Was it practicing?
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